Complaining that the University of Munich, in spite of the National Socialist regime, is still strongly Jewish, a student at the school, in a long news letter to The Stuermer, suggests that “it wouldn’t do any harm if the university disappeared altogether some day.”
“It makes one want to run away from it,’ ‘the dissatisfied student writes. “The Jews are just as much about as ever, and allied with them are the reactionary black Catholics.”
The writer cites an experience in which he encountered “the much prevalent Jewish arrogance.” Entering the university reading room to read The Stuermer, he says, he found scrawled across the front page: “When is this infamous paper going to be stopped?” In retaliation he struck his pen through the first inscription, and wrote beneath it: “What Jewish scribbler did this?” The next day the complainant’s writing was blacked out and the previous legend again repeated.
SPIED WITHOUT SUCCESS
“I obliterated the scurrilous remark once more,” the letter writer continues. “Then I kept watch every day to see who was doing this; but I have not yet been successful.”
“Racially the university is completely degenerated,” another part of the letter reads. “People who in ordinary life are real Jews go about here as ‘Aryans.’ It really seems as if we have become a bastard nation. So far as this university is concerned, it wouldn’t do any harm if it disappeared altogether some day. These mixed-blood Jewish half-breeds are a fertile soil for incitement. And under these circumstances the blacks—I mean the Catholic students are delighted.”
“Three years ago,” the writer continues, “the students here demonstrated in support of a professor who has not been declared free from objection by the State. Professor Mitteis. He is well known as a Liberal Democrat and as no friend of National Socialism. But his lectures are packed. At his last lecture there was a bouquet on his desk. An S. S. man walked across and tore the bouquet to pieces; the only right thing to do. There was a row. The dean called to us to discipline and the lecture went on. An attempt was made to start a demonstration of sympathy for Mitteis, but an S. S. man boxed the ears of the first man who was going to start it, so he thought better of it.
COMPLIMENTS STUERMER
“Soon a half-Jew went up to the professor, saying that he would bring thirty people to deal with the S. S. man. That is typically Jewish. Professor Mitteis, too, looks suspiciously Jewish. The whole business becomes clear to me when I look at the people who go about the university.”
The writer concludes the letter with a compliment to The Stuermer. “It is my only friend and I am happy every Saturday when it arrives. I wish it came daily.”
Commenting on the news letter, The Stuermer says: “This German student is looking things straight in the face. It is the Jewish blood, the Jewish half-breed, the bastard who is all the trouble. Only when the last Jew who has managed to get an ‘Aryan’ certificate by baptism or some other swindle is cleared out of the university, whether he is a Jew or has Jewish blood in him, will our universities be places in which the German spirit is dominant.”
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